Doctor Who Magazine 607 talks to Anita Dobson in its concluding part of access-all-areas coverage of the 2024 Doctor Who series finale. When we last saw Dobson’s character Mrs. Flood, she was standing on a rooftop with a suitcase in a lavish white fur coat, cheerfully teasing that Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor’s story “ends in … >
Writer Stephen Wyatt dramatizes the final years of John Nathan-Turner, classic Doctor Who’s last producer. In the years since his death, plenty has been written and said about the life and times of John Nathan-Turner (aka JN-T). JN-T’s association began with Doctor Who in 1969 and he worked on the show intermittently across the subsequent … >
Written by Stephen Wyatt, Me & Him & WHO tells the story of the infamous JN-T and his partner Gary Downie towards the end of their lives. Across Doctor Who‘s long history, has there ever been as colourful a character in charge as John Nathan-Turner? Assuming the mantle of producer for Tom Baker’s final season, … >
New books about 80’s Doctor Who Producer John Nathan-Turner and Space: 1999 are on their way from Telos Publishing. Thanks to a teasing Facebook post, we already have three titles on our 2022 reading list… The John Nathan-Turner Doctor Who Production Diary 1979 – 1990 Drawing on documentation from the late producer’s personal archive, it … >
1980s Doctor Who had some bold stories – and Andrew Cartmel was one of the big reasons why…
After Christopher H. Bidmead left Doctor Who, Anthony Root took the role on for three months in a trainee capacity. He developed scripts that Bidmead had commissioned, including one by Eric Saward. In the meantime, Root took on another three month contract for Juliet Bravo. Having impressed the outgoing Script Editor with The Visitation, Saward … >
Christopher Hamilton Bidmead became script editor of Doctor Who in late 1979, brought onboard by new Producer John Nathan-Turner. Bidmead had been an actor, scriptwriter and journalist, and was recommended to JNT by Robert Banks-Stewart (who had written for the show in the mid-Seventies). He inherited a situation where JNT and Executive Producer Barry Letts … >